August 17th, 2013

Here’s an update from Harvey Benge about the recent visit to Auckland, of Sandra S. Phillips (Senior Curator of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art).

Sandra Phillips on Quentin’s seat, Devonport

‘It was a great pleasure to last week share the photography trail with Sandra Phillips; here as guest of the Auckland Art Fair and keynote speaker plus teacher at AUT University’s annual Photography Workshop. In both these capacities Sandra acquitted herself with a tremendous generosity of spirit and a ready willingness to share her remarkable knowledge of the photo world accumulated over her many years as chief curator photography at San Francisco MoMA

Auckland Art Fair – panel discussion

On Thursday of last week Sandra participated in a panel discussion at the Art Fair moderated by senior Auckland Art Gallery curator Ron Brownson together with photographers Marie Shannon, Yvonne Todd and myself. We opened up a conversation, What Photography Sees? – Looking passionately at the world. From my side of the table it seemed to be a lively hour.’ Read the full article HERE.